If you could have your time again, what career would you follow?

[Troll]

I suspect that for you younger members IT is all you have known.

There are others to whom the IT industry became a magnet some ways into their working lives so have had an alternative career to look back on.

[wurzel]

I suspect that for you younger members IT is all you have known.

There are others to whom the IT industry became a magnet some ways into their working lives so have had an alternative career to look back on.

Yep. I spent several very happy but skint years dry stone walling for the National Trust

[expat]

I suspect that for you younger members IT is all you have known.

There are others to whom the IT industry became a magnet some ways into their working lives so have had an alternative career to look back on.

That's my problem. I'm only 58 so I haven't had time to do anything else.

[Platypus]

I'd be a gynaecologist

[d000hg]

Think of a photographer who dreamt of being Ansel Adams or David Bailey, who ends up covering drunken squabbly chavs weddings for a pittance.

respectable income. Even a bog-standard wedding photographer is expensive, and you can do a few a week (more than one a day if you're organised I guess).

[Menelaus]

Medicine.

It's what I was aiming for in the first place so it's hardly going to be a major change.

[PRC1964]

respectable income. Even a bog-standard wedding photographer is expensive, and you can do a few a week (more than one a day if you're organised I guess).

It's a thankless job and you will never satisfy the client.

There is no second chance on taking the important photos and they all think they should look like supermodels. You really need an assistant who can round up the various unpleasnt family members and bully them into standing where you want them for long enough to take the snaps.

Top tip: If it's a church wedding, pop around and meet the vicar a week or so before. A nice bottle of something or "contribution to the parish" can mean easy access to the signing of the registry bit.

[realityhack]

It's a thankless job and you will never satisfy the client.

There is no second chance on taking the important photos and they all think they should look like supermodels. You really need an assistant who can round up the various unpleasnt family members and bully them into standing where you want them for long enough to take the snaps.

Top tip: If it's a church wedding, pop around and meet the vicar a week or so before. A nice bottle of something or "contribution to the parish" can mean easy access to the signing of the registry bit.

You've done this before, I take it. Or know someone who has.
wedding photography's about the worst way of earning cash with a camera, I'd sooner be working on commercial or fashion anyday. A million times less stress.

[eliquant]

I would have gone for GP or specialist and worked my bollocks off for it.

[Zippy]

Veterinary medicine